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As part of the discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the Italian language round table discussion that took place on March 2, 2021. (Edit: An …

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First English round table on next generation metadata: towards a critical mass of interoperable library data

March 17, 2021March 23, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf - Leave a Comment

As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the first English language round table discussion held on March 2, 2021.   The session was scheduled to facilitate a broad audience from the EMEA time …

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Next Generation Metadata… it’s getting real!

March 4, 2021March 16, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf - 1 Comment

This spring, OCLC Research are running a discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, where library leaders, metadata experts and practitioners from the EMEA time zone (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) …

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Transcription vs. Transliteration

February 25, 2015 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

This post is co-authored by Karen Coombs, OCLC Senior Product Analyst Our virtual dialog began with Karen C’s tweet: But Karen S-Y couldn’t respond in just the …

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The Variation and the Damage Done

October 22, 2014October 22, 2014 - by Roy Tennant - 3 Comments.

Some of you may already know about my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” project, where I simply expose the contents of a number of MARC subfields in ordered lists of strings. The …

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BIBFRAME Testing and Implementation

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Philip Schreur of Stanford. We were fortunate that staff from several BIBFRAME testers participated: Columbia, …

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Libraries Making an Impact on the Web of Data

September 2, 2014August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

It has been no secret that we are using a vocabulary developed by Google, Microsoft, and others for exposing structured metadata on the web. Documented at Schema.org, this vocabulary is …

Digitization / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries Archives and Museums / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Wikimedia

Code4Lib NorCal Hosted by OCLC Research

July 29, 2014October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

Yesterday the San Mateo, CA office of OCLC Research hosted the first Code4Lib NorCal regional meetup and mini-conference. About 35 people attended from Stanford, UC Berkeley, CSU Chancellor’s Office, UCSF, CSU San …

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Challenges posed by translations

May 20, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

I have been doing a lot of editing of worksets datamined from WorldCat to identify the titles of original works (in the original language and script) and all their associated …

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The Most Important Thing You Haven’t Heard Of

April 29, 2014April 29, 2014 - by Roy Tennant

Many really important things are not recognized as such when they occur. Recognition only dawns slowly, as the implications of what has happened sinks in. I think this is one …